just saw half of a conversation where someone is talking about how it’s ableist to make fun of mark zuckerberg for being expressionless (it is) and that we should instead make fun of him for being a “sociopath” (later used the word “psycho” too) and THAT
is ableist too

BIGOTRY IS NOT A MENTAL ILLNESS. if zuckerberg really had whatever mental illness you think “sociopath” means, he’d probably be a very vulnerable and scared person.

“lack of empathy” DOES NOT make evil

infact empathy is a very powerful tool in the hands of someone evil.

this is getting into exactly the sort of territory where mastodon is a bigoted shithole for disabled ppl - folks are always SPEAKING from IGNORANCE about this stuff and the pressure is on isolated mental health activists to be brave and explain all of MH activism from the ground up in the face of mounting disbelief

mark zuckerberg is a rich person who actively propagates and profits from surveillance capitalism and right-wing propaganda

the part where he’s more unsettling or bad, because his face makes slightly uncanny expressions, because you suspect he might not have empathy? that’s YOUR ABLEISM making him seem more inhuman than, say, justin trudeau or any other charming, attractive, allistic-presenting imperialist villain

@pan I actually just suspect he has mild Asperger's / on the spectrum somewhere. He is notoriously awkward, and I think he probably felt very uncomfortable in that courtroom especially. Facebook still runs on the like single php doc he wrote it on too, apparently.